White Rapids

Product Code: 42173
White Rapids
White Rapids
White Rapids
White Rapids
White Rapids
White Rapids
White Rapids
White Rapids
White Rapids
White Rapids

White Rapids

Product Code: 42173
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Beautifully designed and illustrated. And out of print.

From the back cover:

The rise and fall of a Canadian town

Award-winning Quebecois cartoonist Pascal Blanchet's graphic novel is a compelling account of the rise and fall of the small northern town of Rapide Blanc. In the first English translation of his work, Blanchet seamlessly blends fact and fiction as he weaves together the official history of the town and snapshots of the quotidian life of its residents. Founded in 1928 in an isolated region of Quebec forest, the town was conceived and constructed by the Shawinigan Water & Power Company to function as a fully equipped, self-contained living community for workers at the nearby dam and their families. Intended as an incentive to lure workers to the remote and inaccessible region, Rapide Blanc provided its residents with all the luxuries of middle-class modern life in a pastoral setting-until the town was abruptly shut down in 1971, when the company changed hands.

Blanchet's unique, streamlined, retro-inspired aesthetic draws on Art Deco and fifties Modernist design to vividly conjure up idyllic scenes of lazy summer days and crisp winter nights in Rapide Blanc, transporting the reader back to a more innocent time.

Blanchet, Pascal

Condition & Attributes

Fine

Publishing Information

Montreal
Drawn & Quarterly
2007
1st
9781897299241

Physical Description

8.75 inches
7 inches
156 pages
color
Softcover
wraps
English

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